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nounbrʌɪə Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose. Genus Rosa, family Rosaceae: several species, including the Eurasian sweet briar (R. rubiginosa) Example sentencesExamples - Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
- ‘You're not stupid,’ Bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.
- Immediately, Maria snatched her hand back quicker than if it had just come into contact with a briar bush.
- On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below.
- Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars, and wild animals.
Derivatives adjective This offering heaves with fat, rustic, briary fruit. Example sentencesExamples - This bold, briary, palate is terrific value and will work well with hearty, meaty winter soups.
- So he went to where a single blackthorn limb spired above a briary thicket, rayed with fine spikes.
- Concentrated and briary, it is spurred on by the 20 per cent grenache used in the blend.
- The group recently organized a village clean up where 30 people worked on cleaning up briary overhanging trees.
Origin Old English brǣr, brēr, of unknown origin. Rhymes acquire, admire, afire, applier, aspire, attire, ayah, backfire, barbwire, bemire, buyer, byre, choir, conspire, crier, cryer, defier, denier, desire, dire, drier, dryer, dyer, enquire, entire, esquire, expire, fire, flyer, friar, fryer, Gaia, gyre, hellfire, hire, hiya, ire, Isaiah, jambalaya, Jeremiah, Josiah, Kintyre, latria, liar, lyre, Maia, Maya, Mayer, messiah, mire, misfire, Nehemiah, Obadiah, papaya, pariah, peripeteia, perspire, playa, Praia, prior, pyre, quire, replier, scryer, shire, shyer, sire, skyer, Sophia, spire, squire, supplier, Surabaya, suspire, tier, tire, transpire, trier, tumble-dryer, tyre, Uriah, via, wire, Zechariah, Zedekiah, Zephaniah nounbrʌɪə 1A tobacco pipe made from woody nodules borne at ground level by a large woody plant of the heather family. Example sentencesExamples - Every man present had filled his clay or briar pipes with good Virginia tobacco.
- The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe.
- The briar pipe continued to epitomise solid, dependable, common sense masculinity.
Synonyms tobacco pipe, briar pipe, meerschaum, clay pipe 2The tree heath, which bears the nodules from which briar pipes are made.
Origin Mid 19th century: from French bruyère 'heath, heather', from medieval Latin brucus. Definition of briar in US English: briar(also brier) nounˈbraɪ(ə)rˈbrī(ə)r Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially the sweetbrier and other wild roses. Example sentencesExamples - Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars, and wild animals.
- ‘You're not stupid,’ Bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.
- Immediately, Maria snatched her hand back quicker than if it had just come into contact with a briar bush.
- On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below.
- Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
Origin Old English brǣr, brēr, of unknown origin. |